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1986]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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MEETING OF THE BOARD AS A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

The committee met to receive preliminary recommendations and information with regard to changes in tuition, fees, and housing rates for Fiscal Year 1987. Vice President Weir and others presented written and visual materials outlining tuition charges by the University and other Big Ten institutions, presented alternatives in the assessment of differential tuition for undergraduate students, and reviewed the components of student fee increases and the elements involved in housing charges for the next year. Trustee Gravenhorst reported that she had informal discussions on the previous day with the members of the Executive Student Council at the Health Sciences Center, a group concerned at the escalation of tuition for students in the College of Medicine. (The trustees also received a number of letters from medical students on this subject.) Specific recommendations for increases in tuition, fees, and housing rates will be on the agenda of the Board of Trustees at the meeting of April 10 in Urbana. The board reconvened in regular session at 11:15 a.m.

APPEARANCE, AFSCME

With the approval of the president of the board, a representative of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees from Champaign, Miss Tracy Abman, appeared briefly to present a petition signed by a number of University employees. The petition asked the Board of Trustees "to take all necessary steps to initiate employer-paid dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents during 1986 including the adoption of a resolution requesting that the Department of Central Management Services and the Illinois General Assembly make available the necessary funds to implement such a program effective July 1,1986."

BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

President Ikenberry recognized and introduced observers from the campus senates and from the University Senates Conference.3

Visit to Great Britain

President Ikenberry reported on a recent visit to Great Britain to examine the relationship between industry and British universities, with particular attention to research parks. He noted a particular difference in contrast with American institutions, i.e., the more direct involvement of the institutions in marketing university patents and copyright materials.

1 University Senates Conference: Edward Lichter, professor and head of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, College of Medicine at Chicago, Health Sciences Center; Urbana-Champaign Senate Council: Robert Moreschi, graduate student; Chicago campus Senate: Stanley K. Shapiro, professor and bead of the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University Center.